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Nicolle Wallace reacts to JD Vance defending racist young Republicans chat · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: Stunning reporting this week which has revealed what some prominent
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  Speaker 1: and in some cases elected members of the Young Republican
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  Speaker 1: groups across the country are comfortable saying in the comfort
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  Speaker 1: of their own little group chat bubbles. Republicans in the
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  Speaker 1: state of New York have moved to revoke the chapter
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  Speaker 1: of their state's Young Republican group. That move comes days
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  Speaker 1: after Politico unveiled a massive hoard of telegram chats that
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  Speaker 1: span more than seven months chats among the Young Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: who are all adults for looking at you, JD and
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  Speaker 1: in many cases leaders of their groups in New York, Kansas, Arizona,
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  Speaker 1: and Vermont. The thousands of pages of chats, many of
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  Speaker 1: which are too vile and graphic to put on television
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  Speaker 1: or even read to you, show how these Republicans casually
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  Speaker 1: make racist jokes and use slurs about topics like slavery, rape, Hitler,
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  Speaker 1: and the Holocaust. Peter Junta, who Politico describes as the
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  Speaker 1: most prominent voice in the chat spreading racist messages, was
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  Speaker 1: running to chair the Young Republican National Federation and said,
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  Speaker 1: in regards to his candidacy for that position, quote, everyone
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  Speaker 1: that boats know is going to the gas Chamber end quote.
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  Speaker 1: He apologized for what was said in the messages, but
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  Speaker 1: also caveat in his response by saying he wasn't sure
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  Speaker 1: that they hadn't been doctored. Donald Trump has yet to
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  Speaker 1: say anything about the chats, but jd. Vance has spoken
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  Speaker 1: out on the story. Listen to the sitting Vice President
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  Speaker 1: of the United States describe the actions of people in
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  Speaker 1: the chat who are as old as forty and hold
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  Speaker 1: jobs in politics.
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  Speaker 2: The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys.
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  Speaker 2: They tell edgy, offensive jokes like that's what kids do.
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  Speaker 2: And I really don't want us to grow up in
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  Speaker 2: a country where a kid telling a stupid joke, telling
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  Speaker 2: a very offensive, stupid joke is caused to ruin their lives.
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  Speaker 2: And at some point we're all going to have to
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  Speaker 2: say enough of this. BS.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not kids. Joining me at the table. Former
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  Speaker 1: Texas Congressman Colin Already he's currently run. If US Senate
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  Speaker 1: Sarah Longwell is still here, I want you to respond
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  Speaker 1: to this story and not just a fact of it.
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  Speaker 1: I think we think all of us know that there's
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  Speaker 1: hate unfortunately in all over this country and the hearts
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  Speaker 1: of some people. It is far outweighed by goodness, I think,
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  Speaker 1: I think, I still believe. I hope that's still true.
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  Speaker 1: But it's the response to it that I think is
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  Speaker 1: the flashing red light for American democracy.
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  Speaker 3: No, it is. And you know, I was captain of
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  Speaker 3: my football team at Baylor, and let's just take for
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  Speaker 3: a moment that many of these are guys, and let's
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  Speaker 3: just say that some of them are young, right, And
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  Speaker 3: leadership matters. Leadership matters both in terms of if if
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  Speaker 3: you hear things that people shouldn't be saying, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you've got to police that in the moment, but certainly
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  Speaker 3: afterwards then you have to send an incredibly clear signal
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  Speaker 3: but hey, guys, this is not okay. And if this continues,
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  Speaker 3: there's serious consequences for them. But if anyone else does this,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to find out what's going to happen. And
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  Speaker 3: most concerned thing, like you said, is the President of
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  Speaker 3: United States has said nothing about it. And then what
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  Speaker 3: really could he say that? Oh, we followed my example.
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  Speaker 3: I've not been saying, hey, hey, he could say.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, look, I worked for I worked
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  Speaker 1: for President Bush. And when there were racist leaders in
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  Speaker 1: the Republican Party at any level, and I would.
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  Speaker 3: Say George H. W.
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  Speaker 1: Bush had to do the same thing Democratic leaders have
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  Speaker 1: had to do. When there is something poisonous in your coalition,
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  Speaker 1: you call it out and say I'll win without that
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  Speaker 1: part of my coalition. Donald Trump, for his part, when
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  Speaker 1: it was David Duke, challenged Jake Tapper to tell him
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  Speaker 1: who David Duke was. I mean, this is not isolated,
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  Speaker 1: which I think is why.
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  Speaker 3: It's a story. Yeah. I remember my first month or
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  Speaker 3: two in Congress, Steve King from Iowa had just said
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  Speaker 3: some really vile white nationalist comments, and I was happened
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  Speaker 3: to be I had to sit in the chair, the
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  Speaker 3: speaker's chair while he was defending himself one night, And
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  Speaker 3: I remember at that time, Kevin McCarthy and the Republican
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  Speaker 3: leadership removed him from his committees without us ever having
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  Speaker 3: to say anything. They decided on their campaign arm that
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  Speaker 3: they're going to run someone against him to make sure
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  Speaker 3: that he was not going to be their nominee and
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  Speaker 3: that he didn't represent their party, and they drove them
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  Speaker 3: out of the party. Right. That is a response that
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  Speaker 3: you'd want to see to say, let's make this very clear,
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  Speaker 3: this has no home in our party. But what I
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  Speaker 3: think you and I both agree on is that Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump has said very much and very clearly there is
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  Speaker 3: a home for this in our party. And that's why
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  Speaker 3: you see it showing up.
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  Speaker 1: What do you do in a country where you know,
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  Speaker 1: the last director of the FBI, Christopher Ray, testified on
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  Speaker 1: September twentieth of twenty twenty about the threat environment and
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  Speaker 1: this is a head of Joe Biden becoming president two
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  Speaker 1: months later. But he says, the greatest threat to the
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  Speaker 1: homeland as opposed to the years after nine to eleven,
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  Speaker 1: is now domestic violent extremism. And I think this is
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  Speaker 1: a direct quote. And within that bucket, by far the
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  Speaker 1: largest group is racially motivated violent extremists. And within that
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  Speaker 1: bucket it's white supremacy. I mean, racism is ancient, but
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  Speaker 1: that was new that the greatest threat to the homeland
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  Speaker 1: was racially motivated domestic violent extremism.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Unfortunately, we have example after example to point two.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I've always thought, and I'm glad you
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  Speaker 3: mentioned President Bush because I've always thought that part of
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  Speaker 3: the role of the president of United States is to
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  Speaker 3: be a moral leader as well, and theyn't always live
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  Speaker 3: up to it, right, but to at least try to
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  Speaker 3: remind the country and to point us toward our better angels, right.
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  Speaker 3: And I think for most of our history we've had
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  Speaker 3: presidents who have successfully at least tried it, not always succeeded.
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  Speaker 3: I think this is unprecedented for us to be in
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  Speaker 3: a period where President United States is actually fanning those flames,
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  Speaker 3: and it has real world consequences. There are real people
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  Speaker 3: who are being targeted and being hurt, and there are
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  Speaker 3: groups that feel very empowered. In fact, I was there
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  Speaker 3: on January sixth. I saw them, I heard them, and
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  Speaker 3: then they they are now not only empowered, they've been pardoned,
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  Speaker 3: they've been praised, they've been said that they're patriots. They're
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  Speaker 3: trying to turn January sixth into the next July fourth
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  Speaker 3: for them.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So we're in an incredibly dangerous moment. But I also
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  Speaker 3: agree with what you said a little while ago, which
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  Speaker 3: is that I think we're still a fundamentally decent country
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  Speaker 3: and that most people don't like this. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: I've just been going around Texas. You know this is
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  Speaker 3: not where people are and I think we have to
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  Speaker 3: remember that too and not think that we're unsure in
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  Speaker 3: our footing and that maybe we were wrong about the country.
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  Speaker 3: But say no, they're wrong about the country, and this
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  Speaker 3: is how we can show them the way out of
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  Speaker 3: this